Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – Weekly Python News and Links (Jul 12)

QOTW: “Python’s a language you can swear by, not at.” –
Chris

“Every sufficiently advanced LISP application will eventually
reimplement Python.” – Hodgson’s Law

Chad Himeda asks for a nested loop limit and Peter Hansen
answers with a quick test on the commandline. A discussion on the
merits of code approaching this limit entrails.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=fd07865f.0407071045.16e20c84%40posting.google.com

Karl Pech wants to calculate PI using the Monte Carlo method –
and fast.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ccke8p%24c0h%2406%241%40news.t-online.com

Chris recollects how he fell in love with Python.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.138.1089318827.5135.python-list%40python.org

Marco Aschwanden asks for opinions on the use of multiple return
statements in a single function.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.158.1089358188.5135.python-list%40python.org

Bryan Olson searches for the longest matching prefix of a string
using regular expressions. Michael Hudson offers an alternate
approach.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=gN5Hc.12587%24ia1.1667%40newssvr27.news.prodigy.com

Contrary to the current documentation, the open() builtin is not
retained for compatibility only. It may even grow some extra logic
and no longer be confined to ordinary files.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045931.html

Guido van Rossum is less concerned about variable names shading
builtins than many posters on c.l.py.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045948.html

Anthony Baxter announces release of the first alpha version of
Python 2.4. You are invited to download and participate in the
test.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.157.1089357112.5135.python-list%40python.org

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Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks
away in these pages:

Python.org’s Python Language Website is the traditional center
of Pythonia

http://www.python.org
Notice especially the master FAQ

http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

PythonWare complements the digest you’re reading with the
marvelous daily python url

http://www.pythonware.com/daily
Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
World-Wide Web articles related to Python.

http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are
utterly different in their technologies and generally in their
results.

comp.lang.python.announce
announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup
weekly.

http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of intelligently summarizing
action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week.

http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

The Python Package Index catalogues packages.

http://www.python.org/pypi/

The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects
references to all sorts of Python resources.

http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/

Much of Python’s real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists

http://www.python.org/sigs/

The Python Business Forum “further[s] the interests of companies
that base their business on … Python.”

http://www.python-in-business.org

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official
responsibility for Python’s development and maintenance.

http://www.python.org/psf/
Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.

http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.

http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

Python FAQTS

http://python.faqts.com/

The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
interesting recipes.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are

        http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
        http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
        http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
        http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all

The old Python “To-Do List” now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.

        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com/.
editor@pythonjournal.com and
editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
welcome submission of material that helps people’s understanding of
Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

*Py: the Journal of the Python Language*

http://www.pyzine.com

Archive probing tricks of the trade:

        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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